Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

2021.04.21 (Wed)

【#785】Japan’s Commitment to Military Contributions Being Tested

April 19, 2021 　 Japanese newspapers might have exhausted all possible comments about the latest Japan-U.S. summit. The summary of its significance is that the Biden administration has won Japan’s c...

2021.04.07 (Wed)

【#780】What Would Japan Do in Response to a Taiwan Contingency?

April 5, 2021 　 A Japan-U.S. summit in Washington on April 16 represents U.S. President Joe Biden’s first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader since his inauguration in January, indicating how...

2021.03.25 (Thu)

【#776】China Wants to Continue Talks with U.S.

March 22, 2021 　 Talks between top U.S. and Chinese foreign policy officials in Anchorage, Alaska, were significant in that the Chinese side boiled over and gave away their true feelings while the...

2021.02.03 (Wed)

【#759】Senkaku Affair Highlights Limitations of Japan’s Constitution

February 1, 2021 　 I have mixed feelings about a recent development regarding a gap between China’s gradual enhancement of moves towards effective control of Japan’s Senkaku Islands over a half ce...

2021.01.26 (Tue)

【#758】Call for Unity Rings Hollow

January 25, 2021 　 When I read the full text of U.S. President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, I was somewhat bored because he repeated all too often the explanation of “democracy” and the call for...

2020.12.29 (Tue)

【#751】Start of New U.S. Administration Can Mark a Watershed for Japan

December 28, 2020 　 It is too timeworn to follow media’s year-end practice of selecting and commenting on the world’s 10 biggest news events of the past year. If I were to select only the biggest ...

2020.09.24 (Thu)

【#720】New Prime Minister Suga Lacks National Vision

September 23, 2020 　 New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has got a good start as his commonplace words of “working for the people” and “implementing policies speedily” have become popular, ...

2020.08.06 (Thu)

【#705】Tough U.S. China Policy Represents Reproach to Japan

August 3, 2020 　 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech titled “Communist China and the Free World’s Future” at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California on July 23 was apparently o...

2020.07.22 (Wed)

【#702】U.S. Launches Rollback against China

July 20, 2020 　 Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi at his telephone talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov criticized the United States as breaking the basic rules of int...

2020.07.15 (Wed)

【#700】Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves

July 13, 2020 　 U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who has authored a book pulling back the curtain on the Trump administration’s foreign policy, told in a r...